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flesh-eating

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Adj.1.flesh-eatingflesh-eating - (of animals) carnivorous            
meat-eating, zoophagous
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
carnivorous - (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"
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flesh-eating [ˈfleʃiːtɪŋ] ADJ → carnívoro


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It seems not worth his while to be solemn and denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking, the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
Now, it is very clear to me that in so long a period one would have expected that the carnivorous creatures, multiplying unchecked, would have exhausted their food supply and have been compelled to either modify their flesh-eating habits or die of hunger.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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